Featured Topics: Autumn 2025 Fiction
Autummn 2025 Fiction & Creative Non-Fiction 16Results
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Year of Publication: 2025
Zoran DrvenkarYear of Publication: 2025
Asa
Thriller
Asa is the long-awaited new thriller by bestselling author Zoran Drvenkar. A brutal family epic spanning more than a hundred years with stops in Norway, Venice, Cape Verde, and rural...
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Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV)
Year of Publication: 2025
Serhij ZhadanYear of Publication: 2025
Cease-Fire
Death brings everyone together: while their deceased mother is lying upstairs in the bedroom, in the kitchen, two brothers see each other for the first time in a long time. Anton, the older of the two, has headed off in search of greener pastures. Tolik, the younger brother, has stayed behind, despite the smouldering war and the increasingly precarious conditions. But now the bridge has been...
Year of Publication: 2025
Manuela InfanteYear of Publication: 2025
Hair
An actor is in her early sixties when she suddenly starts losing her hair in tufts. Without putting up a fight, the hair starts to depart her body, the strands lying limp in her hands like dead snakes. Decay has set in, time is the killer. Or is she sick? In any case, she cannot play her stage roles like this anymore, especially not that of Medusa or the Queen Mother. She is pushed out of the...
Year of Publication: 2025
Elisabeth PapeYear of Publication: 2025
Half Serving
A Novel
Born in Germany to a Ukrainian single mother and raised in a household where money was scarce and love was measured in calories, grades, and the numbers on a scale, the protagonist carries these inherited patterns of control and deprivation into adulthood.
Now a writer who hasn’t written a single line in months, she leads a precarious existence in Berlin. She moves from sublet to...
Now a writer who hasn’t written a single line in months, she leads a precarious existence in Berlin. She moves from sublet to...
Year of Publication: 2025
Ozan Zakariya KeskinkılıçYear of Publication: 2025
Son of a Dog
A Novel
ZDF »aspekte« Literary Prize 2025
»This novel will break your heart – and yet, it makes you want to love like Zeko does, just once in your life.« Mithu Sanyal
This...Rights sold to:
Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (Audiolino)
Year of Publication: 2025
Sirka ElspaßYear of Publication: 2025
starve pray sob swim
Poems
Feeling exhausted, hurt, unstable, seeking help – these are some of the existential feelings and emotional struggles that Sirka Elspaß addresses in her new collection of poems. From everyday observations, such as “how often don’t worry about it / appears in the thread”, to the guardian angel who throws in the towel and is no longer reachable, “has even turned off his voicemail.” The gaze falls on...
Year of Publication: 2025
Jina KhayyerYear of Publication: 2025
In the Heart of the Cat
A Novel
When Jina Mahsa Amini is murdered by the morality police in Tehran in 2022 and the world’s first ever women-led revolution breaks out in Iran, the narrator, also called Jina, is confronted by...
Rights sold to:
France (Christian Bourgois), Italy (Iperborea), Netherlands (De Geus), Denmark (Batzer), Romania (Editura Trei), Azerbaijan (Alatoran)
Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German radio reading (HR/NDR)
Year of Publication: 2025
Angela SteideleYear of Publication: 2025
Into the Dark
A Novel
We’re sitting in the dark. On the screen, Great Garbo and Erika Mann meet up in 1969 in the Swiss alps and reminisce. What was the deal with Marlene Dietrich and the woman they both had a thing with? When film captured the zeitgeist of a whole era and the Germans had Hollywood and all of America eating out of their hands. And what about Erika Mann’s antifascist cabaret Die Pfeffermühle, which had...
Year of Publication: 2025
Andreas PflügerYear of Publication: 2025
Colder
Thriller
In the autumn of 1989, Luzy Morgenroth is living as a country police officer on the remote island of Amrum. Nobody around her senses that long ago, she was somebody else. When a local man vanishes...
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Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (Random House Audio)
Year of Publication: 2025
Juliane LiebertYear of Publication: 2025
murder ballads
Murder ballads have been around since people have been telling stories. Whether it’s H.C. Artmann’s dialect poems, Bertolt Brecht’s The Ballad of Mack the Knife or Nick Cave’s Murder Ballads, they all revolve around crime. Juliane Liebert brings this genre into the present day and writes about a female bank robber in men’s clothes who is killed in a stand-off with the police....
Year of Publication: 2025
Oswald EggerYear of Publication: 2025
Oskar Fiala and the Principle of the Smallest Effect
When Oskar Fiala, a forgotten, unknown left-wing social-democrat author, died penniless and nameless on the outskirts of Leipzig in 1948, his death certificate listed his occupation as »worker, mining«. The young journalist and writer led a restless and aimless life, wandering peripatetically across Europe, until the Second World War put an end to his movement. Time and again, he suffered...
Year of Publication: 2021
Brian SewellYear of Publication: 2021
The White Umbrella
A Novel
More than 120,000 copies sold in German alone
A short novel that's a treat for animal lovers – an Englishman rescues a mistreated donkey in Pakistan and now both have to...
A short novel that's a treat for animal lovers – an Englishman rescues a mistreated donkey in Pakistan and now both have to...
Rights sold to:
Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Meridiaan), Greece (Patakis)
Year of Publication: 2025
Ingeborg Bachmann, Heinrich BöllYear of Publication: 2025
»What Are We Going to Do With Our Lives?«
Correspondence
A young poet, who presented her work to the Gruppe 47 for the first time in 1952, and a man nine years her senior, already an established writer. In their letters, Ingeborg Bachmann and Heinrich Böll talk about politics and literature, religion and travel, and time ang again, about the material prerequisites of writing: money and a roof over their heads. Over many years, they read each other’s...
Year of Publication: 2025
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2025
Sand and Time
An Image Atlas
What do we find when we dig in the sands of history? What doe history produce for the present and the immediate future? Alexander Kluge reveals unforeseen connections by gathering together texts and vast numbers of images, for which he partially uses artificial intelligence as a kind of »virtual camera«. His image atlas enable him to firstly keep history alive, and secondly to articulate an...
Year of Publication: 2025
Friedrich AniYear of Publication: 2025
A Hiding Place
Fantasies of an Unknown Homeland
A little village in Bavaria in the late 1950s: a child is born through a connection nobody here had even considered possible. The mother is from Silesia, one of the Heimatvertriebene, ethnic Germans who were expelled from the east after the war and had settled in the town a decade ago. The father is a medical student from Syria, who comes to the village to learn German at the Goethe...
Year of Publication: 2025
Michael KrügerYear of Publication: 2025
Among Poets
In his successful collection of memoires and reflections, Rendezvous with Poets, Michael Krüger only got to scratch the surface of his repository of experiences and anecdotes. As a publisher and editor, but also as a poet and translator, he had the privilege of introducing, promoting, and mourning many more authors.
In his new volume, Among Poets, he again...
In his new volume, Among Poets, he again...
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